Hello guys, It's me again. Is there any one out there reading this twaddle cause it's deadly silent regarding emails at my end despite long periods when I can't get to the internet to check on news as we are miles from people let alone internet. As you can see I am in Turkmenistan now and it is beautiful and wonderful and everything is just as i...

We arrived in the capital mid-afternoon, and were pretty much left to our own devices as long as we stayed in the city. Our hotel rooms were almost certainly bugged, and there seemed to be an excess of shady-looking staff, but as far as we knew we weren't really followed around the city. After experiencing Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, I figure t...

I will be here soon! I just wanted a little dot on my map....

Having resigned from my job and before returning to my beloved Vienna, off I went on four back to back Drago trips over three months from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, through, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan ending in Beijing, China. I met up with John, another passenger due on the trip at Heathrow airport and then the fun started. As we went through passport...